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Scrats…. Are… WHERE DID THEY GO? Oh no… does this mean the Scrat invasion is over?!

Masters, brace yourselves because the Scrat invasion is done and dusted but we have a new season screeching into Minion Masters and this time it’s going to be darker and scarier than ever!

We’re super stoked to introduce our newest expansion … Malediction!

[h3]Cards Added[/h3]





With this new expansion be prepared to enjoy new cards, balance changes and the reintroduction of Wild Cards!

Wild Cards will be now re-introduced but under certain conditions:

• Wild Cards will still remain unavailable in 1v1
  
• Wild Cards will be reintroduced in 2v2
  
• Introducing a “Copies Allowed” stat which will define the number of copies allowed for every card to 1, 2 or 3.
  
• For more information about the reintroduction of Wild Cards, check out our blog post here

[h2]Balance Changes![/h2]

Spirits

• Maximum Health Gain 300 > 400
  
• Minimum Health Gain 0 > 50
  

Crossbow Guild

• Production time 4.5 > 4
  

Swarmer Totem

• Production time 6.5 > 5.7
  

Dev notes: The old production of buildings have not been performing well since their health/duration reduction, so a bit more value over time should help them become more relevant.

Priestess

• Speed 3 > 2
  

Dev notes: We like how the priestess is no longer an infinite healing source that stays with the army at all times, but she leaves the army a bit too fast. Setting her speed to two should allow her to stay with the army unless there is a prolonged fight.

Fireball Dragon Ball Magma Storm Grasping Thorns T.A.A.S/H3LL-F1R3

• Damage 170 > 180
  

Dev notes: Since the increase of spell cost, a lot of the minions that could barely survive a fireball-threshold became a bit too good at surviving spells. Hence, we moved the threshold to 180, making it a smaller buff mostly being relevant for these specific units (it also makes it easier to remember the numbers, as both daggerfall and these spells end with 80).

Smite

• Damage 150 > 180
  

Dev notes: Smite could use a buff, so we moved it into the fireball thresholds.

Ardent Aegis

• Delay 4 > 3.5
  
• Healing 250 > 275
  

Dev notes: Ardent aegis needs a buff, so making it a bit more consistent and stronger should help.

Rampage

• Cast Delay 2 > 1
  

Dev notes: Rampage is mostly outshined by Volco/Ragers rage, and most use cases are preemptive, so no real reason for this delay. We’re reducing it to allow for a bit more flexibility.

Daggerfall Stunlancers

• Now have Call Slitherbound (1)
  

Dev notes: These cards could use a small buff, and it also buffs slither in general that has been a tad weak lately.

Bladestar

• Damage 100 > 130
  

Dev notes: Bladestar is a tad hard to use, so more damage should make it more consistent.

Avea

• Quest Threshold 5 > 4
  

Dev notes: As promised, an Avea buff.It's quite possible it's not enough yet, but we want to see if getting her to relevance earlier. We’ll be closely looking at how she performs in case she needs a bigger tune-up.

Healing Fireball

• Cast Delay 2 > 1.5
  

Dev notes: Healing fireball missed its target a bit too often, making it a very binary spell. Letting it hit a bit more often should help with the balance of the spell.

Chain Lightning

• Bounces 10 > 12
  

Dev notes: Chain lightning needs a buff. To differentiate it more from fireball it gets more bounces, letting it be better against spread out swarms and hit more important targets more often, while still being less good against higher hp units and really clumped up units.

Defenso Chopper

• Health 500 > 450
  

Dev notes: Defenso chopper is a tad overpowered, it’s doing pretty well against the swarm. But it gets a lot of value against mid ranged thus making it a frustrating card to play against.

Wrecked Walker

• Mana Cost 1 > 2
  
• Health 100 -> 150
  
• Outlander Tech: Spend 40 scrap to reduce cost by 1
  

Dev notes: As some feared, a 1 mana bridge grab turned out to be a bit too good. We are adding a small scrap cost to it, otherwise it’s become a 2 mana bridge grab/small tank. This allows for good usage in decks that have scraps leftover, while limiting the power in non-scrap decks.

Howling moon

• Now does true damage
  

Azali

• Mana Cost 8 > 9
  

Dev notes: Azali is a staple card in 2v2 far more than she should be. We don't want to kill her, but we do want to reduce a bit of her power. By increasing her cost, her army should be a bit smaller, and you should have more mana to kill her, without completely killing the dream of the Azali swarm commander.

Werewolf

• Attack cooldown 0.9 -> 1.0 seconds
  

Dev note: Once bitten and lone wolf are a bit too strong, while howling moon and Wolf among sheep are too weak. Therefore, we are reverting a small buff to werewolves so that we can see where all the cards land. We’ll probably be planning a buff to both howling moon and WaS next patch once we have a better idea where they land with these stats.

All the below Cards will have the “No-Wild Card rule” thus only permitting using one of each of these cards in any deck:

• Bats Bats Bats
  
• Black Hole
  
• Blood Imps
  
• Brothers of Light
  
• Brutish Betrayer
  
• Clear Skies
  
• Crossbow Guild
  
• Demon Warrior
  
• Dragon Nest - Removed Mythic
  
• Fanriel
  
• Gambler's ball
  
• Groggy Woodsman
  
• Jing Long
  
• Lone Ranger
  
• Lone Wolf
  
• Mana Puff Madness
  
• Mountainshaper
  
• Netherstep
  
• Nyrvir’s Breath
  
• Once Bitten
  
• Red Golem
  
• Ritual Of Servitude
  
• Rock Rivals
  
• Scrap Yard
  
• Scrat Tunnel
  
• Shen Shock Stick
  
• Styxi
  
• Sugilite Shield
  
• Thelec
  
• Void Altar
  
• Wall
  
• Xiao Long
  
• Zap Shrine
  

All the cards below are going to be restricted to one Wild Card allowing for a total of two of each card in the deck:

• Arcane Ring
  
• Ardera
  
• Bridge Buddies
  
• Combustion
  
• Guardian
  
• Jadespark Watchers
  
• Leiliel
  
• Unholy Ground
  
• Wizard Puff
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed an issue with Vortex not getting a damage increase
  
• Fixed an issue with minions trying to attack others across the gap, which made Veilstalker
• behave incorrectly - Thank you Pom
• Fixed an issue with the emergency reposition tunnel spell being used in places where
• buildings are normally not allowed
  
• Fixed an issue with the red golem at exactly 1500 health not acting as intended
  
• Fixed an issue with Fanriel Stormcharge interacting incorrectly with the protection by Guardian - Thank you InCole
• Fixed an issue with Hypnotized Shield Guard of Light dashing across the map - Thank you chimaerok
• Fixed an issue with Boom Buggy not attacking properly - Thank you Matt
• Fixed an issue in 2v2’s showing +2 marksmanship buff from teammate Stormbringer’s perk 2 on unit placement preview - Thank you Pom
• Fixed an issue with Veilstalker Crystalline Dashing outside the arena - Thank you Matt
• Fixed an issue with different Volco skins being a different sizes
  
• Fixed an issue with the wrong Morellia using books - Thank you Pom
• Fixed an issue with Veilstalker jumping on stealthed units
  
• Fixed an issue with Veilstalker’s ability interacting incorrectly with root and stun
  
• Removed scrat tunnels from the random pool
  
• Fixed an issue with Miloween not getting extra sparks from certain spells
  
• Fixed an issue with Lychanthropy leaving poison clouds. - Thank you Pom

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Thank you for your feedback and participation in the Wild Cards surveys we've conducted over the last few months. We believe, through your feedback, we've arrived at a final conclusion for Wild Cards.

It's clear to us that Wild Cards is a widely loved feature by the majority of our community and we are happy to announce the reintroduction of Wild Cards with Update 1.28.

There are, however, a few caveats.

[h2]Wild Card / No-Wild Card rule[/h2]

First of all, we will only reactivate Wild Cards in the two Team Battle modes (2v2 Randoms and 2v2 Premades), retaining the No-Wild Cards rule in Battle Mode (1v1)

We're doing this because; while we're seeing overwhelming support for wildcards, there is also a large group that does not appreciate the feature. The majority of complaints regarding Wild Cards seem to be coming from the 1v1 segment and conversely, we're also seeing the majority of Wild Cards support coming from the 2v2 segment.

We, therefore, feel like this could be a "happy medium", in which all players might find a game mode/style that suits their liking.

[h2]Copies Allowed[/h2]

Second, we're introducing a Wild Card stat, or "Copies Allowed" as it'll be known in the game.

This is being added to help us mitigate the "negative" side of Wild Cards allowing us to limit the worst and most frustrating combos. We understand that part of the fun with Wild Cards is to create explosive and exciting strategies and we're therefore not seeking to shut down any viable Wild Card strategy. We do, however, have a few combos and strategies that we wish to limit.

This stat also adds a design space that we haven't really had before as we can make certain cards without having to worry that they'd be exploitable via Wild Cards.

So we hope this stat can help us make Wild Cards a better experience for all, allowing the fun strategies while mitigating the "cheese" factor.

We are excited about the future and believe we've found the right solution going forward. However, we are also aware that all the recent changes we've been doing have been disruptive to the play experience and we want to thank you all for your patience with us, and for all your help. With this in mind, we plan to let this setup remain for a while. Naturally, we are still interested in, and appreciative of, all of your feedback. We will be monitoring the general community response to this new setup and we'll also do another survey round at some point when you've all had a chance to try it out, but we are not currently planning any changes for the near future.

Hello Masters,

With the Wild Cards decision still hanging in the unknown, we thought it was time to bring you an update. We've been analyzing the data from the last survey and have a few conclusions.

You can read more about those below here, but if you do not have time to read all of that we would like to ask you to please partake in this next Survey as well.

In this, we propose a few different ways to bring Wild Cards back that we hope can allow more players to have fun with the game, and we'd like your take on it.

👀 https://bit.ly/WCSURVEY3 👀

This survey will run for three days as well (until 1 PM GMT, Friday, Aug. 27th)

[h3]As for our findings from the last survey, read on:[/h3]

Keeping Wild Cards is the more popular choice



Wild Carding 2 different cards seem to be where it's at



2v2 Randoms is the preferred mode for Wild Cards



We generally see the support for Wild Cards fall with higher Ranks. Most clearly we see it in the 1v1 game mode.



[h3]Conclusion[/h3]

All of this leads us to believe that removing Wild Cards outright is not in the best interest of the game nor the majority of the players. However, we do believe that there's a big enough group that takes issue with the mechanic that it's still worth exploring some options. This is where the new survey comes into the picture.

Go to the survey to see our ideas, and while you are there; tell us what you think, why don't you? 😉